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ILOILO-CEBU.

Navegaute, M., engineer and boilermaker

Oppen, E. G., trader

Ordax, Sabino, medical practitioner

Orozco, P., hatmaker

Ortin, F., carriage builder

Ortiz, J., trader

Panadé, F., timber merchant

Panez, S., trader

Peccio, M., trader

Pineda, C., solicitor

Perez & Acha, commission agents and ge- neral storekeepers, agents for Messrs. Larrinaga & Co.

Pedro J. Perez Marcos de Acha

A. de Acha

Preciado, T., wine merchant

"La Puerta del Sol"

J. F. Ramirez

R. Olaguer

M. Cruz

T. Belan

Ramirez & Co., F., merchants

F. Ramirez

Ramos, C., sugar manufacturer

Regalado, J. trader

hemp

Reyna, J., foundry

J. Reyna

J. Ånderson, engineer J. Withayn

Robles, Z., milliner

Robles, Z., veterinary surgeon

Rodrigues, A., trader

Roenseb, A., hatmaker

J. Hagemann, manager

Russell & Sturgis (in liquidation) Perez & Acha, liquidators

Saez, T., trader

San Augustine, J., carriage builder

Servando, S., trader

Sitchon, M., trader

Sitchon, S, trader

Smith, Bell, & Co., merchants

H. P. Gray

W. S. Fyfe

G. Sheherine Adres aiz

Withome, W., engineer

Yulo, T., trader

Zaroga, Y., sugar mauufacturer Zulueta, C., trader

CEBU.

This is an important port and city of the Philippines. It is the capital of the island of Cebu, and ranks next to Iloilo among the ports of the Philippines. It was at one time the seat of the administration of revenue for the whole of the Bisayas, but this was removed to Manila in 1849. Cebu is a well built town and possesses fine roads, but the people are devoid of commercial enterprise. The trade of Cebu consists principally in beinp and sugar. On account of the low price ruling for hemp during the last few years Cebu made no progress, but matters have improved during the last twelve months, the exports showing an increase of more than one-third. The neighbouring islands of Leyte, Mindanao, and Camiguin possess extensive hemp plantations, a large proportion of the produce of which finds its way to Cebu for shipment. The following figures show the trade of Cebu:-In 1880 there entered the port with cargoes 10 vessels of 11,729 tons, aud in ballast 24 vessels of 18,761 tons, and there cleared with cargoes 23 vessels of 23,992 tons. The value of the imports was $22,889, and that of the exports, $1,923,881. There are some very valuable and extensive coal deposits in the island of Cebu, but the mines have not as yet been worked with any enterprise.